Dasante Polk

Dasante Polk (1944-) was a Bayonne, New Jersey dock worker.

Biography
Dasante Polk was born in Virginia in 1944 to a family of poor African-Americans. Polk was one of many African-Americans in the American South to come to the Northeast for work during the Great Migration of the 1970s, and Polk found work on the docks of Bayonne, New Jersey as a dock worker. Polk worked on the docks for years, driving forklifts and moving cargo. He retired in 2008, living in a small apartment with his wife, two children, and three grandchildren.